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The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility, decent housing improves health and...
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The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
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mismatches, continued globalization and technological change, greater income inequality, unprecedented population aging in richer …
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is an important determinant of cross-country income gaps, especially when its measurement is broadened to go beyond …
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Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled …
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trade-off between higher economic growth and higher crisis risk; and its main conclusion is that, for at least middle-income …
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This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence …
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opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population …Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing … sustained increases in the working-age shares of their population, and these shifts have the potential to boost growth and …
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This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over … time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an …
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